Salman Rushdie

Padma Lakshmi’s revealing memoir shows that she has both bark and bite By Iva Dixit In the years before Padma Parvati Lakshmi Vaidyanathan, the daughter of an immigrant nurse from Chennai, India, became Padma Lakshmi, the glamorous and unflappable Top Chef host who tells cook-contestants to please pack their knives and go, she was an